Collection

Pensioners' incomes series

Statistics for the average net income for single pensioners or pensioner couples.

Contents

This series contains estimates of the levels, sources and distribution of pensioners’ incomes. It also examines the position of pensioners within the income distribution of the population as a whole. The series includes information about gross and net income, both before and after housing costs. The ‘after housing costs’ estimates better reflect the income pensioners actually have to spend.

The publication is based on 2 household surveys – the Family Expenditure Survey and the Family Resources Survey. The latest information, for the financial years 1994/95 to 2012/13, comes from the Family Resources Survey.

Older publications

Pensioners’ incomes series statistics and methodological published before May 2010 are available on The National Archives website – Pensioners’ incomes series: previous editions and methodological papers

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Find out about accessing sensitive versions of the households below average income, family resources survey and pensioners’ incomes data

About these statistics

Coverage: United Kingdom

Geographic breakdown: Government Office Region

Next release date: May or June 2015

Contacts and more information

There is contact information and more about DWP statistics on the Statistics at DWP page.

Documents

1. Pensioners' Incomes Series 2012 to 2013

   • 19 December 2014
   • Statistics - national statistics

2. Pensioners' Incomes Series 2011/12

   • 11 July 2013
   • Statistics - national statistics

3. DWP Family and Household Income Statistics – adjusting for inflation: statistical notice

   • 13 June 2013
   • Statistics - national statistics

4. Households below average income: revision to 2008/09 and 2009/10 results

   • 1 May 2012
   • Statistics

5. Confirmation of National Statistics accreditation

   • 1 November 2012
   • Correspondence

6. Pensioners' Incomes Series 2010/11

   • 10 June 2013
   • Statistics - national statistics

7. Pensioners’' Incomes Series 2009/10

   • 10 May 2011
   • Statistics - national statistics

8. Evolution of pensioners’ income from defined benefit schemes

   • 30 March 2012
   • Statistics

9. Pensioners’ incomes series user consultation

   • 1 March 2012
   • Statistics

10. Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics: statistics on household resources

    • 7 December 2011
    • Statistics

• Published: 11 July 2013
• Updated: 1 July 2014

+ full page history

• 1 July 2014 9:30am: Published Pensioners' Income Series statistics for 2012 to 2013.
• 3 June 2014 2:19pm: Published next release date for these statistics (1 July 2014).
• 11 July 2013 9:30am: First published.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions